Smith, 27, spent most of the 2010 season in Triple-A. There he posted a 6.12 ERA, 5.9 K/9, 3.6 BB/9, and 1.7 HR/9 in 75 innings across 15 starts. Smith also tossed 39 innings across eight starts for the big club. He's battled shoulder issues since the middle of the '09 season. His best year was 2008 with the A's, when he made 32 starts with a 4.16 ERA despite some middling peripheral stats.

This guy flopped big time, but it doesn’t mean anything because CarGo has been a monster. It seems crazy to thing two teams traded him away and that he looked like a guy who would never live up to his potential early on. He never fit the profile of a Billy Beane player, so maybe his patience was a little low with him.